The FVEC and you

BY AYIN DREAM D. APLASCA

September diaries, Part 3  

BY PETER SOLIS NERY AT THE rate I’m globetrotting, I should know better about packing for trips by now. But I’m still a lazy bum, and...

Train the kids early about disaster preparedness

BY JULIO P. YAP JR. IN SOME countries, particularly in Japan, school children are taught early about disaster preparedness. With this in mind, the Department of...

Young and exploited

ACCORDING to the United Nations, around 168 million children remain trapped in child labor around the world and many of them live in areas...

So what if it came from Taiwan, not China? 

BY HERBERT VEGO NO DOUBT to absolve China as the source of illegal drugs intercepted in the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte the other day pointed...

The blanket ruling

BY AYIN DREAM D. APLASCA A FEW days ago, a fellow lawyer sent me an e-mail asking if I have a copy of a recent...

From Marawi to mar away

BY AMBASSADOR BAYANI V. MANGIBIN (Ret.) MARAWI was once a peaceful place. It is the only official Islamic City in the Philippines; thus, symbolic of...

Tribalism in Myanmar

BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO ONE OF the most popular principles of modern liberal thought is the end of tribalism in the 21st century.  By...

‘Lord, heal our land’

BY OSCAR CRUZ DATED Sept. 12, 2017, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) formally made a pleading, expressly prayed for the reign of...

Farce

LAST WEEK, the government released a statement alluding to a so-called “victory” after the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted its human rights report card....